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Institute of Mathematics of the University of Barcelona

The IMUB is devoted to fostering and supporting research in all areas of Mathematics since June 2000, by hosting conferences, workshops, seminars and advanced courses, and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers from different fields.

The Institute has 13 research groups and over 90 members from the faculties of Mathematics, Biology, and Philosophy of the University of Barcelona.

Guest researchers are welcome for short visits or long stays upon invitation by IMUB members. Graduate student grants are offered every year, as well as opportunities for short postdoctoral stays.

News and Announcements

Collectanea Mathematica Best Paper Award. Collectanea Mathematica has created an annual Best Paper Award consisting of a prize of 2,300 € and a plaque. The second edition of this annual prize will be awarded for outstanding achievement in any branch of mathematics for articles published in Collectanea Mathematica during the year 2018. In order to have a fair and open selection process, an independent Selection Committee will be nominated in January to review candidate papers. The winner will be announced in July 2019. The prize rules are available here.

László Lovász has been awarded the first "Premi Europeu Barcelona Hipàtia" by the city council which is endowed with 30.000€. The winner will give a lecture at the award ceremony, to be held in the Barcelona City Council in early February 2019.

Distinguished Visitor Call The department Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica together with IMUB offers a grant for a research visit 3 or 4 months starting before the 1rst of October 2019, preferably of a senior professor. See the call.

El Dr. Alex Haro premi R.E. Moore. The interval computations community has a biannual Moore prize for the best application of interval techniques.The winner of the 2018 Moore Prize is the paper by J.-LL. Figueras, A. Haro, A. Luque, "Rigorous Computer-Assisted Application of KAM Theory: A Modern Approach", Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 17, 5, pp. 1123-1193 (2017). The same work was awarded the Barcelona Dynamical System prize 2017 by the Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques. Congratulations!

Forthcoming Scientific Activities:

Lecture by Marta Sanz at the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona on occasion of her inaugural speech: "Deambular amb trajectòries d'equacions en derivades parcials estocàstiques" (17 January 2019).